Updated: Anyone seen the Snoqualmie Trail cowboy?

If you’re up north this week and see a cowboy on horseback towing a mule, tell him howdy.

And if you could, let him know the P-I would like to have a word.

A reader named Ellen e-mailed us this report Monday morning:

I was out running on the Snoqualmie Valley Trail in Duvall this weekend and saw a man on a horse with a pack mule. We had seen him in Carnation the previous day, so my husband struck up a conversation with him. It turns out he started out in Oklahoma on June 2 and he is on his way to see a friend in Ferndale. He has ridden the entire way on his horse with the mule carrying a few supplies and the feed for the animal. He sleeps alongside the road.

I called police departments and city halls in Duvall and Carnation to ask if anyone had seen the man. They hadn’t. I tried Monroe. Nothing.

In the afternoon the receptionist from the Monroe Police Department called back. The weekend duty police sergeant hadn’t heard of the man, she said. But someone else had:

As I was speaking to him one of our customers at our front counter happened to overhear our conversation and mentioned that she had seen him about 11:30 on Sunday over by the Monroe Taco Time, in the parking lot.

That’s two eyewitness reports. Any more? Ellen tells us the “cowboy” rides about 20 miles a day, so he should be well north of Monroe by now. He’ll probably pass by Lake Stevens, Arlington, Burlington and Bellingham before he gets to Ferndale.

Let us know if you see him. Sounds like he has quite the story.

Update, 11:26 a.m.: West Seattle Blog pointed out a blog post that appears to have a picture of our cowboy and his animals. The author of the Biking Bis blog ran into him on the John Wayne Pioneer Trail in the Cascades Saturday. The horse is Mister Doodles. The mule is called Festus. His name, apparently, is Mark.